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The explosion in 1815 of Indonesia's Mount Tambora was one of Earth's largest volcanic eruptions. It buried a tiny kingdom under billions of tons of ash and rock. Little by little, pieces of the village have surfaced.

Willie Nile has earned a great deal of respect in the music business, but never became what you would call a star. It doesn't seem to matter to him. His latest CD pays homage to a nurturing influence. It's called The Streets of New York.

The documentary Unknown White Male chronicles the struggles of a man trying to rebuild his life after suffering complete amnesia. The film's strange tale has led a handful of critics to question the movie's truthfulness.

Last year no fewer than eight bands from Monterrey, Mexico, were invited to play at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. Some have called Monterrey the Seattle of Latin Alternative music, in reference to Seattle's role in the early 1990s as the incubator of grunge rock.

The somber portrait known to most of us as "Whistler's Mother" is out of the latest edition of Janson's History of Art. A more colorful painting by James McNeill Whistler -- of a younger subject -- has been substituted.

Just in time for the holidays... Barney, George and Laura Bush's Scottish terrier, co-stars in A Very Beazley Christmas, the fourth White House holiday video featuring the first presidential pet and the first featuring Miss Beazley, the new Scottish terrier at the executive mansion. Jonathan Last of The Weekly Standard muses on whether this is must-see sequel, or a total dog.

In their new book Rousseau's Dog, authors David Edmonds and John Eidinow describe a bitter, public dispute between philosopher giants Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume.

Thomas Roma has a new book of photos of some of the cells of now-closed Holmesburg Prison in Pennsylvania, where inmates "volunteered" to use their own bodies to test everything from skin creams to LSD.

Set after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Steven Spielberg's film, Munich, follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected of having planned the attack. Critic Kenneth Turan says Spielberg's film is about the "murkiest, most divisive of real world issues."

A full-size Italian Baroque organ -- a 17th-century marvel with 600 pipes and more than 2,000 parts -- is on display at the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery. It's the only organ of its kind in the Americas.